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_s
Hi. I'm a starter theme called _s, or underscores, if you like. I'm a theme meant for hacking so don't use me as a Parent Theme. Instead try turning me into the next, most awesome, WordPress theme out there. That's what I'm here for.
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InfluxDB
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air-light
💨 WordPress starter theme - designed to be dependency-free, minimal, ultra-lightweight (< 20 kB) and easy for all kinds of WordPress projects. We prefer the original WordPress way of doing things - no strange templating languages or frameworks here.
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emacs-leuven-theme
This Emacs theme reduces eye strain with a light, high-contrast color scheme, syntax highlighting, and support for multiple modes. Enhance your coding experience! #emacs #theme #coding #orgmode
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doom-emacs-config
Doom Emacs configuration finely tuned for "distraction-free' academic writing (by tefkah)
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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Can you recommend a starter WP template?
According to the maintainer of that, as you can see in the Q&A section on that page, they use a theme called "Varia" from WordPress's github as their starting point: https://github.com/Automattic/themes/tree/trunk/varia
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Creator of the open source WordPress starter theme Air-light here. Just noticed we have 376 stars on GitHub and some shares here in Reddit so decided to open a discussion about a starter theme: Do you like Air-light? Yes/no, why?
While I endorse any minimalistic block based approach, I don't think blockbase is nothing more than a bare bones as well. What bugged me the most in _s also bugs me in Blockbase - it has "too little of everyhing", it's less than minimum. It's better than "too much of everything" (which is the biggest issue with most of the WP themes out there) but it doesn't help. Also, in my personal opinion stey they still lack in SCSS quality-wise. While there's not a lots of code it's still too messy and complicated for my preferences. As a full on CSS guy with the most minimal approach I appreciate functional, fast yet working style sheet. You can see what I mean when you compare the button block in blockbase (here) and in Air-light (here).
- Any open Source WordPress sites I can view as an example?
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Which workflow is best for modern wordpress development?
If you want to tinker with the new stuff then check out Blockbase. It's basically the FSE centric replacement for the old underscores theme. Setup a local WP environment (e.g. DevKinsta or localwp) and clone the GH theme folder into your project.
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